1 v. (xix, 118 p.) : 29 cm

4 sound cassettes

1 portfolio

Stanford University, thesis in chemistry, interest in botany; work with Cornelius van Niel, Hopkins Marine Station; fellow, Microbiology Laboratory, Polytechnical School, Delft, Holland; Berkeley, 1936-75: soil microbiologist, Agriculture Experiment Station, 1936-50; Dept. of Biochemistry, 1950-75: discusses program in Comparative Biochemistry, Dept. of Bacteriology, Virus Laboratory; research: photosynthetic bacteria, enzymatic synthesis of sucrose, B12 coenzyme, use of radioactive tracers from Berkeley cyclotron, patent on B12 process; comments on scientists: C.B. van Niel, A.J. Kluyver, Sam Ruben, Martin Kamen, Ernest and John Lawrence, Wendell Stanley, and others

copy of a graduate student paper by Susan Spath titled "From menacing microbes to microorganisms as model systems: the enrichment of American science by the Delft School of Microbiology," 1989

Part of the Program in the History of the Biosciences and Biotechnology

Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library

Volume includes index

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